President Trump’s executive order (EO) on “Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure” is a commendable first step in bolstering the nation’s federal defenses against large-scale cyber attacks and state-sponsored cyber adversaries. The need to combat these types of threats and threat actors has only become more pressing following the recent WannaCry and Petya ransomware attacks — both of which wreaked havoc worldwide within weeks of the EO’s May 11, 2017 debut.